Skip to main content

africa

data-content-type="article"
Documentary

Pathway to Education: Breaking Ground in Ghana

By Universe Contributor
May 02, 2024 12:00 AM
Explore the impact of the BYU–Pathway Worldwide education program in Ghana in this 13 minute documentary. Experience intimate interviews and stunning visuals, and listen to Ghanaians share how education has changed their lives. This is a story of hope, innovation and personal transformation created by four BYUjournalism students.
2 Min Read
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="article"
Academics

BYU's diverse study abroad programs

By Andrew Osborn
October 17, 2023 12:00 AM
Chocolate tasting in Germany, gardening in the Mediterranean, going on an African expedition and enjoying Italian living in Siena are some of the many study abroad trips and internships BYU students can participate in.
3 Min Read
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="article"
World

Mozambique mourns as Cyclone Idai's toll rises above 300

By Associated Press
March 20, 2019 12:00 AM
CHIPINGE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Mozambique on Wednesday began three days of national mourning for more than 200 victims of Cyclone Idai, while the death toll rose over 100 in neighboring Zimbabwe from one of the most destructive storms to strike southern Africa in decades.
2 Min Read
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="article"
World

Over 1,000 feared dead after cyclone slams into Mozambique

By Associated Press
March 19, 2019 12:00 AM
A woman walks through the flooded streets of the city of Beira, Sofala Province, Mozambique, after Cyclone Idai made land fall. (Josh Estey/CARE via AP)
3 Min Read
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="article"
Religion

Kenyan broadcast student finds new voice at BYU

By Brittany Salinas
November 29, 2018 12:00 AM
Karani Busolo Namunyu worked in radio broadcast from 2012–17 in Kenya before coming to BYU. He studies at BYU to one day report on government and politics about Africa. (Karani Busolo Namunyu)
5 Min Read
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="article"
Museum & Exhibitions

Top 4 must-see Bean Museum exhibits

By Jacob Osborn
May 02, 2018 12:00 AM
@spenburn: Say Ah! #ilovemykids We loved the new remodel at the #byu #beanmuseum. Seriously, there are some way cool exhibits and learning opportunities for kids. Next time we go I'm taking a measuring tape and we'll measure the kids mouth compared to that hippo.
1 Min Read
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="article"
Nation

Martin Luther King Jr.'s work still resonates across Africa

By Associated Press
April 02, 2018 12:00 AM
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Streets. Schools. A bridge in Burkina Faso. The name of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. can be found across Africa, a measure of the global influence of the American civil rights leader who was shot dead 50 years ago after speaking out against injustices at home and abroad.
3 Min Read
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="article"
Good in the Universe

Latter-day Saints provide $11 million worth of assistance for famine victims

By Carley Porter
September 27, 2017 12:00 AM
JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwd2lkdGglM0QlMjI1NjAlMjIlMjBoZWlnaHQlM0QlMjIzMTUlMjIlMjBzcmMlM0QlMjJodHRwcyUzQSUyRiUyRnd3dy55b3V0dWJlLmNvbSUyRmVtYmVkJTJGelBtaU0za2pfdGclMjIlMjBmcmFtZWJvcmRlciUzRCUyMjAlMjIlMjBhbGxvd2Z1bGxzY3JlZW4lM0UlM0MlMkZpZnJhbWUlM0U=LDS Charities is partnering with 11 global relief organizations in a humanitarian effort recently approved by the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
1 Min Read
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="article"
Travel

Africa a frontier for BYU alumnus' nonprofit

By Kate Blood Ferguson
June 12, 2017 12:00 AM
First row from left to right: Ismael, Molly Johnson, Megan Naatjes, Dora with her children, Kia Fikus, Hannah Rowe. Second row from left to right: Rex Buys, Faza (back), Bronson Fikus, Andrew Barrett, Ashley Barrett. Recent BYU graduate Andrew Barrett (third from right) and other Marafiki Africa business program participants meet with Dora, who owns her own embroidery shop. (Marafiki Africa)
3 Min Read
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="article"
Life

BYU student from Ivory Coast invests in home country

By Michaela Proctor
March 08, 2017 12:00 AM
BYU information systems student Stephane Akoki is the founder of Life Elevate, a nonprofit that invests in small businesses in the Ivory Coast. (Stephane Akoki)
4 Min Read
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="article"
Nation

Sierra Leone Mormon missionaries injured in car accident

By Cassidy Hansen
August 28, 2016 12:00 AM
Four LDS Church missionaries serving in the Sierra Leone Freetown Mission and a church member were injured in a car accident on Wednesday, August 24, announced LDS Church spokesman Eric Hawkins on Saturday.
1 Min Read
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="article"
Religion

Elder Donald L. Hallstrom: I Am a Child of God

By Haley Hilton
April 02, 2016 12:00 AM
Elder Donald L. Hallstrom (LDS Church)
2 Min Read
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="article"
Religion

Pope decries vile bombing in Pakistani park on Easter

By Alayna Pehrson
March 28, 2016 12:00 AM
Pope Francis decries what he calls the ‘’vile’’ and ‘’abominable’’ Easter Sunday bombing in a Pakistani park targeting Christians and insisting religious minorities be protected. (Associated Press)
1 Min Read
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="article"
World

Ivory Coast: Extremists kill 14 civilians, 2 special forces

By Gianluca Cuestas
March 14, 2016 12:00 AM
Security forces gather around the scene were gunmen attacked people in Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast. (Associated Press)
4 Min Read
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="article"
Nation

Mormons gather to discuss race issues within faith

October 12, 2015 12:00 AM
Elder Joseph W. Sitati, of Kenya, one of the highest-ranking black Mormon leaders, looks on after speaking at a conference at University of Utah Friday, Oct. 9. Elder Sitati, of the Quorum of the Seventy, said the number of Mormons in Africa has increased to nearly 449,000 in 2014, up from 7,600 in 1978. (Associated Press)
3 Min Read
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="article"
Campus Events

African Peacekeeping Operations come to BYU

By Theresa Davis
September 16, 2015 12:00 AM
UN personnel execute a peacekeeping operation. Students learned about these operations during the conference call on Wednesday. (Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)
4 Min Read
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="article"
Nation

Two South African universities suspend classes over protests

September 15, 2015 12:00 AM
Protests outside Vaal University of Technology in Vanderbijlpark, South Africa. (Twitter/@eNCA)
1 Min Read
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
data-content-type="article"
Life

A toddler disc jockey fascinates South Africans fans

April 16, 2015 12:00 AM
At first it seems like a fluke — a 2-year-old playing with the knobs and buttons of a sophisticated music system. Yet, the tiny boy is in control of the big beat of the bass-heavy house music. He is South Africa's youngest disc jockey, DJ AJ.
1 Min Read
overrideBackgroundColorOrImage= overrideTextColor= overrideTextAlignment= overrideCardHideSection= overrideCardHideByline= overrideCardHideDescription= overridebuttonBgColor= overrideButtonText= overrideTextAlignment=
Next